{"id":279,"date":"2012-01-27T19:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-01-27T19:03:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:03:01","slug":"tarmac-takes-getting-used-to-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Tarmac takes getting used to again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the various building works last year, the 675 was laid up off the road. I had planned to wait until spring to get it MOT&#8217;d (safety checked) and get it back on the road. With the mild weather there is not time like the present though.<\/p>\n<p>After riding the CRM\/YZ for the past months, getting back on a true road bike was very very odd. The amount the bars moved for slow speed manouvering was scary, the brakes seemed weak (but aren&#8217;t), the throttle rather responsive, the clutch immediate and the raw accelation, grin worthy.<\/p>\n<p>I did manage to remember how to ride it, the battery worked, the engine management didn&#8217;t light up like a christmas tree and it gained an MOT. Triumph did a beautiful piece of engineering with that bike and I remember why I own it. We need some better weather but its ready and waiting :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the various building works last year, the 675 was laid up off the road. I had planned to wait until spring to get it MOT&#8217;d (safety checked) and get it back on the road. With the mild weather there is not time like the present though. After riding the CRM\/YZ for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpsys.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}